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So then what year did the first millennium start?
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Bryan Rabeler
rabelerb@pilot.msu.edu
http://www.msu.edu/~rabelerb/
"Let me remind people that we're not in the business of censorship" - Chris
Dornfeld, 4 November 1998
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From: <ComAsYuAre@aol.com>
To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: A83: (no subject)
>
> In a message dated 12/24/99 4:56:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> rabelerb@pilot.msu.edu writes:
>
> > Yeah, but its too bad then that all these media organizations are
picking
> > their "Person of the Century", "Event of the Century", etc right now
> instead
> > of the end of next year.
>
> The thing is, this millenium ends in a week. It doesn't matter if there
was
> a year 0, the simple matter is, if people say the millenium ends Dec 31,
> 1999, it does. Think about it; what's a date? It means nothing in the
grand
> scheme of things, just what we want it to be. So if everyone decides that
> the next millennium starts on Jan 1, 2000, then it does. It does only
> because they say it does; they are the only reason it exists in the first
> place.
>
> Ok, enough cryptic philosophical junk for one day :P
>
>
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> Jonah Cohen
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> http://linux.hypnotic.org/~jonah/ (down)
>
>
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